Kauffman, Clara Fricke (1909-2006)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2006 Feb 20 p. 8

Birth date: 1909 Jan 28

text of obituary:

CLARA KAUFFMAN

Clara Kauffman, 97, of Hesston, Kan., died Feb. 8, 2006, at Newton Medical Center. She was born Jan. 28, 1909, to Charles and Anna (Dietrich) Fricke in Chicago.

She married Milo Kauffman on Oct. 3, 1931, in Chicago.

She was a homemaker and a member of Hesston Mennonite Church.

Survivors include a son, Milo F. Kauffman Jr. and his wife, Carolyn, of Newton; seven daughters, Marilyn Miller and her husband, Maurice, of Boulder, Colo., Joy Sears and her husband, Merle, of Tiskilwa, Ill., Evelyn Shellenberger and her husband, Wally, of Paoli, Ind., Gloria Yoder and her husband, Levi, of Lovington, Ill., Bonnie Sowers and her husband, Floyd, of Hesston, Phyllis Hysong and her husband, John, of Phoenix, Ariz., and Betty Kauffman Schmidt and her husband, Clinton, of Littleton, Colo.; a brother, Elmer Fricke of McMinnville, Ore.; a sister, Evelyn Millbern of Springfield, Mo.; 28 grandchildren and 36 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Milo, in 1988; three sons, Glen, Charles and David; four brothers; a sister; and a grandson, Michael Miller.

Services will be held at Hesston Mennonite Church. Burial will be in Eastlawn Cemetery.

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2006 Feb 27 p. 7